Glossary

1. GLOSSARY
Aránzazu Ricote Rodríguez
Yara Labrador López
2nd Childhood Education

2. INDEX
• Approach
• Acquisition vs Learning
• Digital literaly
• Drills
• ESL
• EFL
• Multiple intelligences
• Mother tongue
• Phonics
• Silent Period
• Target language
• TPR

3. APPROACH
An approach is axiomatic. It describes the
nature of the subject matter to be taught. It
states a point of view, a philosophy, an article
of faith - something which one believes but
cannot necessarily prove. It is often unarguable
except in terms of the effectiveness of the
methods which grow out of it.

4. • It´s a method of teaching people to read
and pronounce words by learning the
sounds of letters, letter groups, and
syllables.
PHONICS
• Also, teaching reading by training
beginners to associate letters with
their sound values.

5. DIGITAL LITERACY
Digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with
learning how to effectively find, use, summarize, evaluate,
create, and communicate information while using digital
technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.

6. MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES
• Gardner chose eight abilities that he held to
meet these criteria: musical - rhythmic, visual -
spatial, verbal - linguistic, logical -
mathematical, bodily - kinesthetic,
interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
• He later suggested that existential and moral
intelligence may also be worthy of inclusion.

7. TARGET LANGUAGE
• It is the language that learners are studying, and also the individual
items of the language that they want tolerant, or the teacher wants
them tolerant.

8. MOTHER TONGUE
• It’s the first language that a person
speaks the best and so is often the
basis for sociolinguistic identity.

9. ESL
• English as a Second Language also refers to specialized approaches to
language teaching, designed for those whose primary language is not English.

10. EFL
• English as a Foreign Language.
• EFL is usually learned in
environments where the language of
the community and the school is not
English.

11. SILENT PERIOD
• The silent period hypothesis is the idea that when a language is learned, there should be a
period in which the learner is not expected to actively produce any language.
• This is based on observations of a listening period in infants when they learn a first language.

12. ACQUISITION vs LEARNING
• Acquisition is subconscious process. It does not require extensive use of
conscious grammatical rules while Learning is a conscious process that consists
of learning grammar rules of a foreign language.

13. TPR
• Total Physical Response.
• It can be considered as a from of
communicative language
teaching.
• This is an introduction to the
teaching approach known as total
physical response.

14. DRILLS
• Drills are performed mechanically and they
depend on repetition. This is recommended in
lower-leveled students and usually at the
beginning of the lesson.
• There are three types of these drills; simple
repetition drills (no creativity involved),
substitution drill (substituting one or more
items), transformation exercise (changing the
structure).